Hudson Reporter Archive

WEST NEW YORK – More than 200 students assembled with poster board, bags, and anxious looks on their faces as they entered the auditorium of the Joseph Coviello Recreation Center Jan. 7. The silence in the room immediately turned into wistful chatter as the elementary and high school students presented a science fair that had …

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WEST NEW YORK – In front of his family and nearly 80 supporters, West New York Mayor Albio Sires was sworn in at the War Memorial in Trenton Tuesday as the newest member of the state assembly. As 33rd District assemblyman, Sires, a Democrat, will represent Guttenberg, Hoboken, Union City, Weehawken, West New York and …

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WEST NEW YORK C Richard Loschiavo believes his new position as the director of facilities, planning and security for the city’s public schools is a great opportunity to give back to a community that nourished him. Loschiavo, who had previously been a teacher for nearly 30 years in the city, where he grew up, said …

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WEST NEW YORK – A dark cloud had hovered over the West New York Police Department since Jan. 13, 1998, the day the FBI advised the department that they would be making arrests of several officers on charges including racketeering, bribery and extortion. Now, as the department enters into the new millennium and tries to …

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WEST NEW YORK – The Board of Commissioners will meet Jan. 19 to vote to dissolve the West New York Municipal Utilities Authority, an agency that has existed only on paper for the past three years. The MUA, which had run the city’s sewerage treatment plant since 1980, has been managed since 1997 by the …

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When Carlos Restrepo comes to visit his chiropractor in West New York, he often has to use the public pay phones from outside to call for his ride home. Last week, he seemed a bit frustrated as he lost his change trying to make his call. But for Carlos, losing his change really has been …

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Captain Bill Sheehan has had a lot of roles in his life, from rock-and-roll drummer as a boy to cab dispatcher in later years. Yet, the most consistent thing in his life has been the Hackensack River. Even though he has spent more than 30 years fishing and boating on the river, the Secaucus resident …

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Captain Bill Sheehan has had a lot of roles in his life, from rock-and-roll drummer as a boy to cab dispatcher in later years. Yet, the most consistent thing in his life has been the Hackensack River. Even though he has spent more than 30 years fishing and boating on the river, the Secaucus resident …

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George Pycik, the newly appointed director of Union City’s Veterans’ Affairs office, has seen his share of struggles in his lifetime. Enlisting in the U.S. Army at the tender age of 18, he set out to do something with his life. Nearly 28 years later, he looks back on his tour of duty in Vietnam …

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